 ">Stations which carry a network's programming through an affiliation maintain a contractual agreement, which may allow the network to dictate certain requirements that a station must agree to as part of the contract (such as programming clearances or reverse compsensation of a share of a station's retransmisson consent revenue to the network). Affiliation contracts normally last between three and five years, though contracts have run for as little as one year or as long as ten; in addition, if a company owns more than two or more stations affiliated with the same network, affiliation contracts may have end-of-term dates that are the same or differ among that company's affiliates, depending on when a particular station's affiliation agreement was either previously renewed or originally signed. While many television and radio stations maintain affiliations with the same network for decades, on occasion, certain factors may lead a network to move its affiliation to another station (such as the owner of a network purchasing a station other than that which the network is affiliated with or a dispute between a network and station owner while negotiating a contract renewal for a particular station), often at the end of one network's existing contract with a station. One of the most notable affiliation changes occurred in the United States from September 1994 to September 1996, when television stations in 30 markets changed affiliations (through both direct swaps involving the new and original affiliates, and transactions involving multiple stations) as a result of a May 1994 agreement by New World Communications to switch twelve of its stations to Fox,[1] resulting in various other affiliation transactions including additional groupwide. http://www.qatarairways.com/kw/en/offers/last-minute-holiday-offers.page?cid=AFALL454410&a_aid={affid} www.thecityseller.com  
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